Signs of the Times

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November 18, 2011 - 2:52 pm

An Occupy London protester holds up a banner as protesters demonstrate outside the U.S. Embassy in London in support of Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York who were evicted from their camp today, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011. New York police have dismantled the Occupy Wall Street camp in Zuccotti Park and arrested about 200 people following a raid in the early hours. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

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Protesters from the Occupy Las Vegas sit down on Las Vegas Boulevard near Lloyd George Federal Courthouse on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011. Police arrested 21 protesters on charges of being an unlawful pedestrian in the roadway.

An Occupy London protester holds up a banner as protesters demonstrate outside the U.S. Embassy in London in support of Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York who were evicted from their camp today, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011. New York police have dismantled the Occupy Wall Street camp in Zuccotti Park and arrested about 200 people following a raid in the early hours. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

An unidentified Occupy Miami protester, wearing a jester hat and carrying a sign, listens to speakers during the occupy protest in downtown Miami, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011. Several hundred people gathered at a downtown Miami park in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street protests taking place around the nation. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)

A protester holds a sign as he walks down the steps during a rally in Los Angeles, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011. Occupy Wall Street demonstrators held modestly sized, but energetic rallies around the country Thursday to celebrate two months since the movements birth and signal that they aren't ready to quit yet. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Ari Cowan, 21, of San Francisco, holds a shield while wearing protective goggles in anticipation of clashes with police during an Occupy Wall Street march, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011, in New York. Two days after the encampment that sparked the global Occupy movement was cleared by authorities, demonstrators marched through the financial district and promised mass gatherings in other cities. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Occupy Wall Street protesters gather in Zuccotti Park after marching around Wall Street in New York, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011. Demonstrations of Occupy Wall Street protesters popped up from coast to coast Thursday to mark two months since the movement's birth in a lower Manhattan park. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

San Francisco Police officers arrest an Occupy protester inside of a Bank of America branch after protesters stormed the branch Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011 in the financial district of San Francisco. Police arrested a number of protestors after more than 100 rushed into the branch chanting "money for schools and education, not for banks and corporations." (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Occupy Wall Street protesters gather in Union Square after marching from march from Zuccatti Park, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011, in New York. Two days after the encampment that sparked the global Occupy protest movement was cleared by authorities, demonstrators marched through New York's financial district and promised a national day of action with mass gatherings in other cities. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano)

Signs cover a portable toilet while a camper eats nearby at Occupy Seattle at Seattle Central Community College Tuesday morning, Nov. 15, 2011, in Seattle. Officials at the college said last week that they're getting fed up with Occupy Seattle. The protesters moved their encampment to the school late last month after city officials told them they couldn't pitch overnight tents in a downtown park. The college estimates the demonstration is costing it $20,000 a week. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Demonstrators affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement march through the streets of the financial district, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011 in New York. Two days after the encampment that sparked the global Occupy protest movement was cleared by authorities, demonstrators marched through New York's financial district and promised a national day of action with mass gatherings in other cities. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

A demonstrator stands holding a sign expressing her views behind a couple of police officers at Zuccotti Park, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011 in New York. The Occupy Wall Street encampment is gone, but the movement lives on. What nobody knows is just how long it can survive without a place to call home after police hauled away demonstators in a late night raid. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

A woman yells as she marches with students and Occupy San Francisco protesters in the financial district as part of a demonstration in San Francisco, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Josh Rollins carries a sign outside Dallas City Hall near the remains of the Occupy Dallas campsite in Dallas, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011. Just after midnight, Dallas police evicted all protestors from the camp a day after Dallas leaders told demonstrators they could stay if they obeyed all laws. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Occupy Albany protester Robert Eaton of Albany, N.Y., walks in Academy Park in Albany, on Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011. An Albany County Republican Party official is urging Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo to appoint a special prosecutor to press their cases for violating a curfew in a public park next to the state Capitol. Protesters have camped out at the city's Academy Park since Oct. 21. Starting this past weekend, troopers have made 59 arrests of those who crossed into adjacent state-run Lafayette Park. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

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A sticker from the Occupy Las Vegas gorup outside the Bank of America in downtown Las Vegas on Friday, Oct. 28, 2011. About 60 demonstrators protested outside the bank building in the first of weekly planned events at other banks around the city.

Occupy Denver protester Claudia Livingston, 63, of Westminster, Colo., chants with others at a rally at Denver's City and County Building, on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

John Aldous of Dallas makes his way along with others protestors through Philadelphia on a march form the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Zuccotti Park in New York to Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Chanting "Condi lied and people died," Mallory Patterson, and Bill Kool, both of Grand Rapids, Mich., carry a giant paper Mache' head and protest sign during an Occupy Grand Rapids protest outside DeVos Place in Grand Rapids Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011. Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was speaking at the Kent County GOP Annual Lincoln Day Dinner. "She (Rice) was part of the cabal that got us into the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan under false pretenses," Kool said. (AP Photo/The Grand Rapids Press, Rex Larsen)

A protester's wagon sits at the Occupy Philly encampment at City Hall, during a stop in Philadelphia on a march form the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Zuccotti Park in New York to Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

An Occupy London protester holds up a banner as protesters demonstrate outside the U.S. Embassy in London in support of Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York who were evicted from their camp today, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011. New York police have dismantled the Occupy Wall Street camp in Zuccotti Park and arrested about 200 people following a raid in the early hours. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

Britte Notzold and her daughter Ida, 1, joined Occupy Denver protesters at a rally at Denver's City and County Building , on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

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The dinosaur statue at Katja Crosby's Sinclair gas station at Maryland Parkway and Flamingo Road, has a sign saying "I am the 99%" taped over it's mouth Monday, Nov. 14, 2011. Occupy Las Vegas moved into the station over the weekend after Las Vegas Costable deputies served Crosby with a judgment.

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The Occupy Wall Street protests have provided a rich environment for political sayings on various signs.

Las Vegas police are looking for two men involved in the shooting death of a man outside a 7-Eleven story at Bonanza Road and Maryland Parkway on Nov. 12, 2018. (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)

VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System hosts Veterans Day Car Show and BBQ

The 4th Annual Veterans Day Car Show and BBQ is held in celebration of Veterans Day at the VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System Medical Center in North Las Vegas, Saturday, Nov. 10, 2018. (Caroline Brehman/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

The Metropolitan Police Department and Sunrise Children's Hospital held a press conference to get the message out on preventable infant deaths attributed to "co-sleeping" and other unsafe sleeping habits. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

No serious injuries after car hits tree in south Las Vegas

One person reported minor injuries but wasn’t hospitalized after a Wednesday morning crash in the south valley.

Las Vegas police determined that a suspicious package found Monday morning at a central valley post office was not a threat.

Suspicious package found at central Las Vegas post office

Police evacuated the area around the Garside Station post office early Monday morning near Oakey and Decatur boulevards.

With husband's passing, family in limbo for workers' comp claim

Meredith Tracy's husand, Russell Tracy, died more than a year ago on his first day working for a new company when he fell 22 feet into a manhole that was not properly safeguarded. His employer was fined $82,000 in penalties for unsafe practices, but the company has denied her workers' compensation claim, leaving her with no compensation since the death. Rachel Aston Las Vegas Review-Journal @rookie__rae

With husband's passing, family in limbo for workers' comp claim

Meredith Tracy's husand, Russell Tracy, died more than a year ago on his first day working for a new company when he fell 22 feet into a manhole that was not properly safeguarded. His employer was fined $82,000 in penalties for unsafe practices, but the company has denied her workers' compensation claim, leaving her with no compensation since the death. Rachel Aston Las Vegas Review-Journal @rookie__rae

Las Vegas family shares flu warning

Carlo and Brenda Occhipinti lost their son, Carlo Jr., or “Junior,” to the flu last year.

Author Randall Cannon shares an anecdote about Stadust Raceway

Author Randall Cannon shares an anecdote about Dan Blocker, who played Hoss Cartwright on the TV show "Bonanza," and the actor's passion for auto racing at Stardust International Raceway in Las Vegas during the 1960s. (Ron Kantowski/Las Vegas Review-Journal.)

Eastbound lanes of the 215 Beltway are shut down by the Nevada Highway Patrol after a female juvenile jumped from the 215 overpass at Stephanie and was struck by a FedEx tractor trailer. Michael Quine/Las Vegas Review-Journal @Vegas88s

Kristallnacht story

An interview with 94-year-old Holocaust survivor Alexander Kuechel who survived seven concentration camps and didn’t leave Germany until after World War II was over. (Mia Sims/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

1 dead in central Las Vegas crash

An early Wednesday morning crash left at least one person dead and another injured. The crash was reported just around 3 a.m. at the intersection of Flamingo Road and Swenson Street. At least two vehicles were involved in the crash, one of which caught fire. Debris was scattered across the intersection as police combed the area as they investigated the scene. Flamingo is blocked in both directions between Swenson and Cambridge Street. Northbound Swenson is blocked at the intersection.

Richard Knoeppel named the 2018 Nevada Teacher of the Year

Richard Knoeppel, an architecture design instructor at the Advanced technologies Academy, named the 2018 Nevada Teacher of the Year on Monday, Oct. 29, 2018. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye

Mojave Poppy Bees

(Zach Portman/University of Minnesota Department of Entomology) Male Mojave poppy bees exhibit territorial fighting behavior. The Center for Biological Diversity wants the bee, found only in Clark County, to be added to the endangered species list.

Clark County Schools announce random searches

Clark County School District middle and high school students will be subject to random searches for weapons under a new initiative to combat the wave of guns found on campus. (Amelia Pak-Harvey/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

Las Vegas house prices are rising But so is the amount of available homes on the market Still, properties priced below $300,000 are selling fast And September was the first time since June 2007 that the median house price reached the $300,000 mark Las Vegas home prices have been rising at one of the fastest rates in the country over the past year Recent data show the market is now less affordable than the national average

National Night Out

About 100 Summerlin residents gathered at Park Centre Dr. in Summerlin on Tuesday for National Night Out. Lt. Joshua Bitsko with Las Vegas Metro, played with 3-year-old David who was dressed as a police officer. Face painting, fire truck tours and more kept kids busy as parents roamed behind them. (Mia Sims/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

Rural homeless issue comes to a head in Pahrump

On Sept. 12, Pahrump sheriff deputies told residents of a homeless encampment on private property that they had 15 minutes to vacate and grab their belongings. That decision might face some legal consequences. (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal)